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Ccat – Colorize Cat Command Output

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Senthilkumar
Jan 19, 2018

As you might already know, Cat, acronym for concatenate, is an Unix command to view, combine, and copy text files. This command is one of the most frequently used command everyday in GNU/Linux and Unix-like operating systems. If you use cat command often, you might want to try ‘Ccat’. It is very similar to cat command, but displays the contents with syntax highlighting. The currently supported languages are JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Python, Go, C, and JSON.

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